Top 25 Metal Albums Of 2025

It’s time to share my TOP 25 favorite metal albums of 2025. From death metal and avantgarde black metal to mathcore and progressive thrash… I’ve got quite a diverse list of the best, MUST LISTEN albums for you today! #bestmetalalbums #bestmetal2025 #newmetal @signsoftheswarmband @RevocationOfficial @deftones Revocation - New Gods, New Masters Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding Cryptosis - Celestial Death Pathogenic - Crowned in Corpses Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power Mugshot - All The Devils Are Near Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens Epica - Aspiral Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence Vildhjarta - Där Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Grana (Where the forest sings under the eternal spruce trees) Depravity - Bestial Possession The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard Sigh - I Saw The World's End - Hangman's Hymn MMXXV (Re-Recording) Fleshbore - Painted Paradise Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here Eluveitie - Ànv Tallah - Primeval: Obsession // Detachment Black Magnet - Megamantra Deftones - Private Music Igorrr - Amen Signs Of The Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth Veilburner - Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy The Callous Daoboys - I Don’t Want To See You In Heaven Imperial Triumphant - Goldstar 00:00 Intro 00:11 Ascension of the Black/Thrash Riff Deities 00:54 Industrial Nightmares Take Flight 01:33 Orbiting the Outer Realms of Prog Thrash 02:22 Tech Death at the Throne of Bones 03:01 Shoegaze Sovereignty Meets Blackened Fury 03:42 Violence Manifested in 26 Minutes 04:24 Modern Tech Death Dominance 05:02 Symphonic Metal at Peak Altitude 05:46 Canadian Tech Death Titans Return 06:29 Third Thunderous Threnody of Thall 07:24 Riff-Beasts Unleashed from Down Under 08:01 Melodeath Supergroup Marches Again 09:05 Avant-Garde Legend Improves On Perfection 09:50 Tech Death FFO Soreption, Archspire 10:28 Mathcore Eye Hazard 11:09 Beatdown Apocalypse 11:59 Folk Metal Reborn 12:49 The Only Nu School Nu Metal Worth The Time 13:38 Industrial Devastation in Overdrive 14:25 I Did, In Fact, Depart My Body 15:11 Baroque Breakcore Baptism 15:58 Deathcore… No It’s Not Whitechapel, Shadow Of Intent, or Lorna Shore 16:46 Psychedelic Blackened Menace 17:34 The Best Modern Mathcore Band 18:24 The Best Metal Album Of 2025 Buy Metal Trenches MERCH (Sick design by CurlyArt): https://metaltrenches.bigcartel.com/ Grow YOUR OWN YouTube Channel with https://vidiq.com/METAL Join us on DISCORD! https://discord.gg/7QTAesh5Pp Become a Supporter! https://www.patreon.com/metaltrenches https://www.subscribestar.com/metal-trenches SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: http://eepurl.com/dogQCD Connect: https://metaltrenches.com https://www.minds.com/metaltrenches https://www.facebook.com/metaltrenches/ https://metaltrenches.bandcamp.com/ https://twitter.com/MetalTrenches https://www.instagram.com/metal.trenches I do not own the rights to any of the featured song clips on this video. All credit to the artists and labels with specific permission granted. These fall under fair use based on sufficient transformation for the purpose of review, promotion, and commentary.